The Way To Do It

The Brit Guardian Unlimited has completed a major restructuring of its comprehensive coverage of the arts, and it’s a thing of beauty and marvelous to behold. Of particular interest is the reordering of its music coverage that now has separate sections for each music genre which automatically segregates coverage of classical music and opera and of jazz and blues from coverage of pop, rock, C&W, and other crap. It's the way to do it, and the way it should be done by every mainstream publication that pretends to authority in the music universe.

The Guardian may be unregenerately left-leaning politically, which is too bad, but in its arts coverage it's spot-on right (as in correct), and makes the arts coverage of mainstream dailies such as The New York Times look like it was put together by pretentious but purblind yokels.